Sir Lenny Henry has said that, as a young man, some girls would not dance with him because he was “a black guy”. The comedian, 61, recalled attending discos while growing up in the West Midlands, where he would try to slow dance with girls.
He told the Grounded With Louis Theroux podcast: “If you wanted to meet members of the opposite sex you’ve got to go to a place where they might be and where they might be was St Thomas’ disco next to the church… “You would spend nearly all evening ignoring them and then in the last five minutes, there would be this rush to the dance floor to try and slow dance with a girl.” He said the boys would “try to cram the whole dancing with the girl thing” into the last minutes in the hope they would “get a
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